Hardware

The RSA Breach: Time for Full Disclosure?

Posted by on June 3, 2011 at 12:06 pm

As more companies with national security interests come forward with admission of breaches related to the hacking of RSA’s SecurID technology, one wonders if it is time for RSA to break its stubborn refusal to tell the public what exactly was stolen or when the breach actually occurred. At this stage, it is not just [...]

Unlimited Data Storage Space: A Good Thing or the Sword of Damocles?

Posted by on April 6, 2011 at 8:43 am

“Does not Dionysius seem to have made it sufficiently clear that there can be nothing happy for the person over whom some fear always looms?” – Cicero I walked into a local electronics store the other day and saw a 2TB SATA hard drive for $80, and a 3TB drive was on sale for about [...]

Is Samsung Installing Keyloggers on Laptops?

Posted by on March 30, 2011 at 2:29 pm

UPDATE: It has now been confirmed that Samsung laptops do not contain keyloggers or spyware. UPDATE: Samsung has issued a statement saying that the finding is false. The statement says the software used to detect the keylogger, VIPRE, can be fooled by Microsoft’s Live Application multi-language support folder. This has been confirmed at F-Secure and [...]

Routers, Hops, Executioners and Obituaries: A Look at ICMP

Posted by on March 4, 2011 at 12:05 pm

ICMP is the Internet Control Message Protocol which works at Layer 3 or the Network layer. It is used for all kinds of network messaging services utilized by IP, the Internet Protocol. In fact, here’s how it is defined by Wikipedia: “The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is one of the core protocols of the [...]

Can Computers Speak Human? A Look at ARP Conversations

Posted by on March 2, 2011 at 5:26 pm

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scene when you send an email, connect to a website or simply plug a new computer into your local network? I took a look recently, and I must say, machine language, basically, is no different from ours at some levels. When we hear the term machine [...]